I was searching for some information about the COBOL programming language, when I say this page and I was surprised by the numbers that said:
Is COBOL that popular!In 1999 they reported that over 50% of all new mission-critical applications were still being done in COBOL and their recent estimates indicate that through 2004-2005 15% of all new applications (5 billion lines) will be developed in COBOL while 80% of all deployed applications will include extensions to existing legacy (usually COBOL) programs.